They are ubiquitous today, those bag-salad kits you find in the produce section of most grocery stores. But they are a recent innovation, one that truly disrupted a category. Since 1995, Taylor Farms has been doing just that: disrupting the produce department with bagged salads, salad kits, fresh-cut vegetables, and other healthy foods.

Bruce Taylor serves as the chair and CEO of Taylor Farms, headquartered in America’s lettuce bowl, Salinas, California. Taylor Farms has 14 facilities in North America. I had the opportunity to talk with Taylor about human capital, innovation, leadership, and entrepreneurialism. I found his answers both insightful and profound. I hope you enjoy the interview.

EB: What keeps you up at night?

BT: Trying to figure out how to generate the human capital to keep growing at a fairly rapid rate. We have a very complicated business, and it has been difficult to find transferable industries where we can just re-pot someone. So, we tend to be homegrown leaders.

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